> In any case, combining a command and its arguments in a single > string is almost always the wrong way to go about it.
Please compare the two scripts and see if the second one makes more sense. /tmp$ cat not_convert_args_to_string.sh #!/bin/bash options="$2" find $1 $options echo find $1 $options /tmp$ cat convert_args_to_string.sh #!/bin/bash options="$2" cmd="find $1 $options" eval "$cmd" echo $cmd /tmp$ ./not_convert_args_to_string.sh . "-type f -name '*'" find: `./cvcd': Permission denied find . -type f -name '*' /tmp$ ./convert_args_to_string.sh . "-type f -name '*'"|head find: `./cvcd': Permission denied ./.main.sh.swp ./0001e4ecf6175 ./alm.log ./amt.log ./convert_args_to_string.sh ./FLEXnet/11.5.0.0 build 56285Macrovision ./FLEXnet/524288-16F7558F-328B-4dc3-BEDF-095C1F14FFF1 ./FLEXnet/524288-34E9EE98-50ED-4c6c-BD0F-F539123FD064 ./FLEXnet/524288-85A0F138-527D-4012-8175-79A3AEA4152E ./FLEXnet/freCqflgCxFrwiBvBiCadibCwg -- Regards, Peng
